Remove HDD recovery partition

My girlfriend ordered a new computer and she wants her daughter to have the old one. I am going to have the task of upgrading her old one to win 7 for her daughter.
The old system is HP XW4600 workstation with XP Pro sp3. I had her order an OEM win 7 Pro sp1, 32 bit disc.
I noticed that Drive 0 has 2 partitions, C: ( OS ), and D: which is HP recovery. How do I get rid of the recovery partition to make all of Drive 0 one partition for just C: on the HDD when I install win 7 pro.
Thanks for any and all reply's

I will be doing a clean install ( booting from the DVD ) so at that time I can delete all partitions to start with before installing win 7?
I've never used any partitioning software so doing it during the clean install would probably be my best bet. There will be a learning curve either way, LOL

Yes sir, you most certainly can.
Here is an article from TweakHound that will walk you through it.

Looks like an informative article but it doesn't mention anything about my particular problem with the 2nd partition (at least as far as I can see). I went over it a couple of times but that doesn't mean I didn't miss something, LOL.
I guess if I screw it up, I can always start over again. Thanks for the link.

Ahhh, so I would delete the 2nd partition and then the 1st partition to make it a clean drive and then format it to put win 7 on. This would all be done from the "custom install" drive options (advanced) at boot up of the DVD. Is that correct?

Cool, I think that 100MB is standard isn't it?
Yes, I don't think there is a way to avoid it in fact when creating the partition and formatting with a Win 7 install disc.

This exchange went on. That small partition got my dandruff up for a while until I was able to get rid of it. As I could not find any rime nor reason for it, my project was to regain this small space. As you know FUN, I use Acronis and cloning. So, I went to a disk editor, Gparted, deleted the small partition and cloned the C:\ to USB HD. Acronis does not copy empty space so the destination did not show this small partition. I then immediately cloned back from USB HD to C:\ and voilà, zapped-gonzoed !

You can get rid of that 100MB partition if you so choose with a 3rd party partitioning tool from post #2.
I believe the 100MB partition was originally intended for use with Microsoft's encryption software.

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